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'''Hamlet''' is Shakespeare's most famous play, a 400-year old [[tragedy]] about [[incest]], [[revenge]] and [[madness]].
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'''Hamlet''' is Shakespeare's most famous play, a 400-year old [[tragedy]] about [[incest]], [[revenge]], [[madness]], [[homicide]], [[suicide]] and [[duel]]s to the death.
    
The title character is the son of King Hamlet, who appears in a ghostly meeting to the young prince. The dead king accuses his brother (young Hamlet's uncle) of murdering him.  
 
The title character is the son of King Hamlet, who appears in a ghostly meeting to the young prince. The dead king accuses his brother (young Hamlet's uncle) of murdering him.  
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Hamlet's quest to avenge his father's murder destroys his own life. As Prince Hamlet investigates, he faces a conspiracy involving schoolmates Rosencrantz and Guildenstern; [[Ophelia]]'s father [[Polonius]]; and even his own mother. [[Homicide]], [[suicide]] and [[duel]]s to the death follow.
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Hamlet's quest to avenge his father's murder destroys his own life. As Prince Hamlet investigates, he faces a conspiracy involving schoolmates Rosencrantz and Guildenstern; [[Ophelia]]'s father [[Polonius]]; and even his own mother.  
    
He betrays his suspicions inopportunely in an angry tirade and is watched closely from then on. Polonious, a pompous old fool who is the king's advisor, thinks Hamlet's acting strange out of love for Ophelia and orders her to break off her relationship with Hamlet.  
 
He betrays his suspicions inopportunely in an angry tirade and is watched closely from then on. Polonious, a pompous old fool who is the king's advisor, thinks Hamlet's acting strange out of love for Ophelia and orders her to break off her relationship with Hamlet.  
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